Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

"Exclusive − Trump doesn't want long-term occupation of American cities, Vance says"

Translation:

"Whoops, this has been a complete clusterfuck. We thought Americans in LA and DC would roll over and die. After all, that's what we would do! How were we to know? 😭 Now the sandwich guy is a national hero and we look dumber than ever."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/vance-trump-national-guard-cities-exclusive-interview/85848923007/

#JDVance #protests#washingtonDC#FreeDC#LosAngeles
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

"Exclusive − Trump doesn't want long-term occupation of American cities, Vance says"

Translation:

"Whoops, this has been a complete clusterfuck. We thought Americans in LA and DC would roll over and die. After all, that's what we would do! How were we to know? 😭 Now the sandwich guy is a national hero and we look dumber than ever."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/vance-trump-national-guard-cities-exclusive-interview/85848923007/

#JDVance #protests#washingtonDC#FreeDC#LosAngeles

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Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A bunch of veterans ran off #ICE at Union Station, and then educated the #NationalGuard about their right and duty to refuse illegal orders. Now there is also no National Guard presence at the station. These #veterans say they will continue their sit ins across the city until all federal forces are out of #WashingtonDC.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN1mL6n3JlP/

#FreeDC #protests #50501movement
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A bunch of veterans ran off #ICE at Union Station, and then educated the #NationalGuard about their right and duty to refuse illegal orders. Now there is also no National Guard presence at the station. These #veterans say they will continue their sit ins across the city until all federal forces are out of #WashingtonDC.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN1mL6n3JlP/

#FreeDC #protests #50501movement
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I keep seeing Nazis trying to intimidate protesters by filming them/us. 😂 It's happened to my squad at Tesla Takedown, and the Heritage Foundation makes a laughable show of treating peaceful protesters like criminal types. ICE agents try to film protesters who film them, like that's some kind of revenge.

They just don't get that we DGAF. We are not cowards. We are not the ones breaking the law. And we are the majority by far.

You wanna film me, go ahead. I'm protesting to be visible. Thanks!
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I guess the awesome @bookersquared got under the Heritage Foundation's extremely thin skin.

If you can't see it, know that protesters are regularly making noise outside Heritage Foundation headquarters in DC, and while it's peaceful it gets... hilariously personal here. 🤣

https://www.instagram.com/p/DM_10SoMr1o/

#protests #50501movement
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The other kind, #Title32, is a #federal - #state status where #troops are controlled by their state #governor but federally funded. It also allows more latitude to participate in law enforcement missions. #NationalGuard troops from other states arrived in DC under such circumstances during racial justice #protests in 2020.

#Trump #law#PosseComitatusAct#MilitaryState#Autocracy#Constitution#FreedomOfAssembly#RightToProtest#FreeSpeech
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Government ‘influencers’

‘Lord’ Walney, a lobbyist for Israel, weapons manufacturers and the oil industry is urging the government/police to up the ante on protests over the banning of Palestine Action. Who would have thought it? One assumes those organisations protesting against fossil fuel companies will be next on the proscription path.

http://archive.today/2025.08.07-210743/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/palestine-action-uk-met-police-bg8zx6sjq

#PalestineAction#Walney#Authoritarian#Labour#Policing#CivilRights#Protests #JustStopOil#Facist#NotTerrorism

From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Government ‘influencers’

‘Lord’ Walney, a lobbyist for Israel, weapons manufacturers and the oil industry is urging the government/police to up the ante on protests over the banning of Palestine Action. Who would have thought it? One assumes those organisations protesting against fossil fuel companies will be next on the proscription path.

http://archive.today/2025.08.07-210743/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/palestine-action-uk-met-police-bg8zx6sjq

#PalestineAction#Walney#Authoritarian#Labour#Policing#CivilRights#Protests #JustStopOil#Facist#NotTerrorism

From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
From the article - reads ‘However, Lord Walney, the government's former adviser on political violence and disruption, warned that the charges announced by the Met were not enough to deter people from showing support and solidarity with the group. He told The Times: "This action from the Met sends a welcome signal that there are consequences for Gaza activists if they are lured into support for a proscribed organisation by Palestine Action ring leaders, but three charges on their own may well be insufficient to deter the current attempt to overwhelm the criminal justice system." Warning about Saturday's protest, he added: "There's a clear attempt by sympathisers of Palestine Action to try to overwhelm the criminal justice system by luring as many people as possible to this mass protest. "Many young. people, students and lots of people across the system risk getting duped by ringleaders of Palestine Action who are telling them 'don't worry you won't get charged even if you get arrested'. That's a terrible message to send out. "The slowness of this process is actually increasing the scale of the problem and that is something to which the attorney-general should have a view.”’
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

This weekend will likely see (potentially) violent anti-migrant protests in a number of cities, stoked by the (Far) Right, as well as (expected) peaceful protests in London by those objecting to the proscription of Palestine Action.

The actions of the police across these different cases (and in comparison) will be instructive.

#protests #politics

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Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Goofy Protest Thread #37: #RageAgainstTheRegime!

It was kinda hot today, and only cooled off as some thunderstorms rolled in. Despite less than perfect weather, there were still a couple thousand people out; a few brought protest dogs. The organizing groups also decided it was too hot to march safely, given that so many elders and little kids and people with disabilities showed up. We still had speakers, sign ups with groups, and a great time before the storms!

#50501movement #protests
Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Goofy Protest Thread #37: #RageAgainstTheRegime!

It was kinda hot today, and only cooled off as some thunderstorms rolled in. Despite less than perfect weather, there were still a couple thousand people out; a few brought protest dogs. The organizing groups also decided it was too hot to march safely, given that so many elders and little kids and people with disabilities showed up. We still had speakers, sign ups with groups, and a great time before the storms!

#50501movement #protests